Bug#893713: debootstrap-udeb: containts too many scripts files (most of them are symlink but...)
Hi,
On Fri, 23 Mar 2018, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> It's not a problem, but we can improve it, IMO (so severity is low).
So you tried to fix a non-problem... and while doing so you introduced
a real problem.
While cleaning up the list of scripts to keep, you decided to drop the
scripts for all derivatives making it impossible to use the udeb built
for Debian on any derivative (Kali bug report here:
https://bugs.kali.org/view.php?id=4921)
So you saved a few kilobytes and made the life harder for others.
IMO it was the wrong decision.
The other bug that you fixed at the same time asked to add more scripts,
it did not ask to remove any.
If you really want to do anything at this level, you should just have
a list of obsolete release and automatically drop the corresponding
scripts. But IMO this is not worth the effort. We should just keep all
scripts.
Cheers,
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